Is it permissible to pray for reaching the merit of "the best people of his time" for some Companions, and not for reaching the status of the Companions themselves?
There is no harm in supplicating to Allah to make the supplicant the best person of his time, just as it is permissible to ask Allah for faith like the faith of Abu Bakr.
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